Recent Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The special Bergendoff centennial issue of the Q u a r t e r l y (Vol. 46,
No. 3) also appears under the title Aspects of A u g u s t a n a and Swedish
A m e r i c a : Essays in H o n o r of D r . C o n r a d Bergendoff on H i s 1 0 0 t h Year,
edited by Raymond Jarvi, as Augustana Historical Society Publication
No. 44 (1995, 168 pp., hardcover and softcover, illustrated). Copies
of both the special issue of the Q u a r t e r l y and the Augustana Histori­cal
Society imprint were presented to Dr. Bergendoff at a reception
held at House on the Hill, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois,
on Saturday afternoon, 11 November 1995. The Augustana imprint
may be ordered from the Augustana Historical Society, Augustana
College Library, Rock Island, IL 61201-2296, telephone 309-794-7317,
at a cost of $7.50 (hardcover) or $5.00 (softcover) plus $2.00 for
shipping and handling.
* * *
In connection with the 150th anniversary of the emigration of
Peter Cassel and his party as well as their establishment of New
Sweden, Iowa—the first lasting Swedish settlement in the American
Midwest, in 1845—the Society is bring out a collection of essays and
documents, P e t e r Cassel and Iowa's N e w S w e d e n , edited by H. Arnold
Barton (1995,114 pp., softcover). This book may be ordered from the
Society at a cost of $10.75 (Society member's price; nonmember's price
is $11.95) plus $3.50 for shipping and handling.
* * *
Far ahead of their time, Fredrika Bremer's novels (the earliest of
which was published in Sweden in 1828) were intelligent, clever, and
strikingly well-informed in matters concerning women. Early on they
were translated and sold in many editions. Her aim was not simply
to entertain, but to educate. She wanted to make women stand up
as equal partners, and to inform men about their duties to women.
She took positions on political questions, started social projects, and
chided the church for its political conservatism and theological
49
rigidity. She needled the government to change its laws. Reaching
beyond Europe, she traveled for two years in America (1849-1851)
and then wrote her classic account H e m m e n i den Nya världen
(1853-1854; T h e H o m e s of the N e w World, 1854). She met such notables
as Emerson and the Dakota chief Gray Iron. Swedish scholar Brita
K. Stendahl is the author of T h e Education of a Self-Made Woman:
F r e d r i k a B r e m e r 1 8 0 1 - 1 8 6 5 (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen
Press, 1994. 240 pp., hardcover). In this new and detailed biography,
Fredrika Bremer emerges as both forthright and enigmatic. It catches
her fascinating combination of the courage to witness and agitate for
change as well as her desire for privacy and meditation. For anyone
interested in equal rights for women, social policy, or nineteenth-cen­tury
American society as viewed from the perspective of a discerning
foreign visitor, Brita K. Stendahl's recent contribution to the extensive
Bremer literature affords exciting and stimulating reading.
* * »
In September 1995 the Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint
Paul, republished in its Borealis Book series Vilhelm Moberg's epic
tetralogy T h e E m i g r a n t s , translated by Gustaf Lannestock (Book I: T he
E m i g r a n t s , 366 pp.; Book II: Unto a Good Land, 371 pp.; Book III: T he
S e t t l e r s , 399 pp.; and Book IV: T h e Last Letter H o m e , 299 pp.; softcover,
$15.95 per volume). A new introduction by Roger McKnight, head
of the Scandinavian Studies Department at Gustavus Adolphus
College, describes Moberg's life and literary career, his intense desire
to capture in his writing the true experiences of the Swedish
Americans, and his empathy for the emigrants that has brought these
characters alive for millions of readers in twenty languages. This
Borealis Books edition also restores Moberg's bibliography, not
included in earlier English editions.
* » *
A fourth edition of E t h n i c Chicago (Grand Rapids, Michigan:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. vii + 648 pp.,
softcover, illustrated, $29.99) edited by SAHS board member Melvin
G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones has been published in an expanded and
revised version with some fifteen new chapters, including "A
Community Created: Chicago's Swedes, 1880-1950" (110-21) written
by SAHS member Anita R. Olson. In addition to editing the work,
50
Holli has authored the chapter entitled "German American Ethnic and
Cultural Identity: from 1890 Onward" (93-109). The book also has
something new in the genre of ethnic literature in its six-chapter
section on ethnic institutions, which covers the ethnic saloon, ethnic
sports, ethnic crime, the ethnic church, ethnic neighborhoods, and
ethnic cemeteries.
* » *
Sammye Munson's new book H e j ! Texas, Goodbye Sweden is the
story of a 15-year-old Swedish immigrant named Carl Olsson who
comes to the Georgetown, Texas, area in 1880 and learns to adapt to
his new home through various adventures. Not only does he have
to learn English, but he must also learn to cope with discrimination,
rattlesnakes, and the hot Texas sun. The author has based this
fictional story for children on the lives of her husband's grandparents,
who immigrated to Texas in 1880. She has written several other
books and is an active member of the Texas Swedish Cultural
Foundation in Houston. H e j ! T e x a s , Goodbye Sweden sells for $12.95
and may be purchased from Eakin Press, P.O. Drawer 90159, Austin,
TX 78709.
» » »
Gösta Bjelkeborn is the author of "Jemtland" in A m e r i k a . U t v a n d r i ng
frän Härjedalen 1 8 4 6 - 1 8 5 7 (Gävle, Sweden, 1995, 112 pp., softcover,
illustrated). This book deals with the earliest emigration from the
northwestern Swedish province of Härjedalen, beginning with several
families who emigrated with the Eric Jansson sect to Bishop Hill,
Illinois, followed by others who established the "Jemtland" colony at
Vasa in Goodhue County, Minnesota. The price, which includes
shipping and handling, is $28.00, payable to the author's account
number 6300723-1 at PostGirobanken, S-105 06 Stockholm, Sweden.
» » »
Ingvar Henricson and Hans Lindblad have jointly published T u r
och retur A m e r i k a . Utvandrare som förändrade S v e r i g e (Stockholm:
Fischer & Co., 1995. 299 pp., softcover, illustrated). The book
consists of two parts, first Henricson's "Stångjärn och emigranter,"
which deals with traveling conditions during the era of the sailing
51
ships, and then Lindblad's "Impulser som förändrade Sverige," which
focuses on modernizing influences in Sweden due to emigrants and
immigration. A former member of the Swedish Parliament, Hans
Lindblad took the initiative some three years ago for the 1996
sesquicentennial celebration and has been a member of the Swedish
coordinating committee. Inquiries as to this title may be sent to
Fischer & Co., Norrlandsgatan 15, S-111 43 Stockholm, Sweden.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The special Bergendoff centennial issue of the Q u a r t e r l y (Vol. 46,
No. 3) also appears under the title Aspects of A u g u s t a n a and Swedish
A m e r i c a : Essays in H o n o r of D r . C o n r a d Bergendoff on H i s 1 0 0 t h Year,
edited by Raymond Jarvi, as Augustana Historical Society Publication
No. 44 (1995, 168 pp., hardcover and softcover, illustrated). Copies
of both the special issue of the Q u a r t e r l y and the Augustana Histori­cal
Society imprint were presented to Dr. Bergendoff at a reception
held at House on the Hill, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois,
on Saturday afternoon, 11 November 1995. The Augustana imprint
may be ordered from the Augustana Historical Society, Augustana
College Library, Rock Island, IL 61201-2296, telephone 309-794-7317,
at a cost of $7.50 (hardcover) or $5.00 (softcover) plus $2.00 for
shipping and handling.
* * *
In connection with the 150th anniversary of the emigration of
Peter Cassel and his party as well as their establishment of New
Sweden, Iowa—the first lasting Swedish settlement in the American
Midwest, in 1845—the Society is bring out a collection of essays and
documents, P e t e r Cassel and Iowa's N e w S w e d e n , edited by H. Arnold
Barton (1995,114 pp., softcover). This book may be ordered from the
Society at a cost of $10.75 (Society member's price; nonmember's price
is $11.95) plus $3.50 for shipping and handling.
* * *
Far ahead of their time, Fredrika Bremer's novels (the earliest of
which was published in Sweden in 1828) were intelligent, clever, and
strikingly well-informed in matters concerning women. Early on they
were translated and sold in many editions. Her aim was not simply
to entertain, but to educate. She wanted to make women stand up
as equal partners, and to inform men about their duties to women.
She took positions on political questions, started social projects, and
chided the church for its political conservatism and theological
49
rigidity. She needled the government to change its laws. Reaching
beyond Europe, she traveled for two years in America (1849-1851)
and then wrote her classic account H e m m e n i den Nya världen
(1853-1854; T h e H o m e s of the N e w World, 1854). She met such notables
as Emerson and the Dakota chief Gray Iron. Swedish scholar Brita
K. Stendahl is the author of T h e Education of a Self-Made Woman:
F r e d r i k a B r e m e r 1 8 0 1 - 1 8 6 5 (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen
Press, 1994. 240 pp., hardcover). In this new and detailed biography,
Fredrika Bremer emerges as both forthright and enigmatic. It catches
her fascinating combination of the courage to witness and agitate for
change as well as her desire for privacy and meditation. For anyone
interested in equal rights for women, social policy, or nineteenth-cen­tury
American society as viewed from the perspective of a discerning
foreign visitor, Brita K. Stendahl's recent contribution to the extensive
Bremer literature affords exciting and stimulating reading.
* * »
In September 1995 the Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint
Paul, republished in its Borealis Book series Vilhelm Moberg's epic
tetralogy T h e E m i g r a n t s , translated by Gustaf Lannestock (Book I: T he
E m i g r a n t s , 366 pp.; Book II: Unto a Good Land, 371 pp.; Book III: T he
S e t t l e r s , 399 pp.; and Book IV: T h e Last Letter H o m e , 299 pp.; softcover,
$15.95 per volume). A new introduction by Roger McKnight, head
of the Scandinavian Studies Department at Gustavus Adolphus
College, describes Moberg's life and literary career, his intense desire
to capture in his writing the true experiences of the Swedish
Americans, and his empathy for the emigrants that has brought these
characters alive for millions of readers in twenty languages. This
Borealis Books edition also restores Moberg's bibliography, not
included in earlier English editions.
* » *
A fourth edition of E t h n i c Chicago (Grand Rapids, Michigan:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. vii + 648 pp.,
softcover, illustrated, $29.99) edited by SAHS board member Melvin
G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones has been published in an expanded and
revised version with some fifteen new chapters, including "A
Community Created: Chicago's Swedes, 1880-1950" (110-21) written
by SAHS member Anita R. Olson. In addition to editing the work,
50
Holli has authored the chapter entitled "German American Ethnic and
Cultural Identity: from 1890 Onward" (93-109). The book also has
something new in the genre of ethnic literature in its six-chapter
section on ethnic institutions, which covers the ethnic saloon, ethnic
sports, ethnic crime, the ethnic church, ethnic neighborhoods, and
ethnic cemeteries.
* » *
Sammye Munson's new book H e j ! Texas, Goodbye Sweden is the
story of a 15-year-old Swedish immigrant named Carl Olsson who
comes to the Georgetown, Texas, area in 1880 and learns to adapt to
his new home through various adventures. Not only does he have
to learn English, but he must also learn to cope with discrimination,
rattlesnakes, and the hot Texas sun. The author has based this
fictional story for children on the lives of her husband's grandparents,
who immigrated to Texas in 1880. She has written several other
books and is an active member of the Texas Swedish Cultural
Foundation in Houston. H e j ! T e x a s , Goodbye Sweden sells for $12.95
and may be purchased from Eakin Press, P.O. Drawer 90159, Austin,
TX 78709.
» » »
Gösta Bjelkeborn is the author of "Jemtland" in A m e r i k a . U t v a n d r i ng
frän Härjedalen 1 8 4 6 - 1 8 5 7 (Gävle, Sweden, 1995, 112 pp., softcover,
illustrated). This book deals with the earliest emigration from the
northwestern Swedish province of Härjedalen, beginning with several
families who emigrated with the Eric Jansson sect to Bishop Hill,
Illinois, followed by others who established the "Jemtland" colony at
Vasa in Goodhue County, Minnesota. The price, which includes
shipping and handling, is $28.00, payable to the author's account
number 6300723-1 at PostGirobanken, S-105 06 Stockholm, Sweden.
» » »
Ingvar Henricson and Hans Lindblad have jointly published T u r
och retur A m e r i k a . Utvandrare som förändrade S v e r i g e (Stockholm:
Fischer & Co., 1995. 299 pp., softcover, illustrated). The book
consists of two parts, first Henricson's "Stångjärn och emigranter,"
which deals with traveling conditions during the era of the sailing
51
ships, and then Lindblad's "Impulser som förändrade Sverige," which
focuses on modernizing influences in Sweden due to emigrants and
immigration. A former member of the Swedish Parliament, Hans
Lindblad took the initiative some three years ago for the 1996
sesquicentennial celebration and has been a member of the Swedish
coordinating committee. Inquiries as to this title may be sent to
Fischer & Co., Norrlandsgatan 15, S-111 43 Stockholm, Sweden.
52